[OpenAFS] AFS on NFS?

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
25 Jul 2003 11:02:09 -0400


tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Tino Schwarze) writes:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:15:40AM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
> > And while we're on that subject, performance (which is better/worse)?  And 
> > how does one 'ask' for an inode based partition?
> 
> You 'ask' on compile time. On Linux, NAMEI is default. NAMEI is probably
> a bit slower than inode-based (but I for myself don't like the idea of
> performing behind-the-back operations on a filesystem - if you run the
> original fsck by accident, you lose all your data).

FYI, there is no Inode-based file server on Linux.  Linux only supports
NAMEI.  Solaris, however, gives you a choice at compile time.

-derek
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